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The organizers of the Salzburg Festival refused to ''cancel'' Russian culture, Belcanto.ru reports. The Music and Theater Festival is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.
One of the organizers of the festival, Markus Hinterhäuser, who is a great admirer of Russian music and Russian performers, had to endure many unpleasant moments in disputes with Austrian officials and politicians who demanded a ban on the presence of Russian performers. Nevertheless, the Russians were not banned from this grandiose event.
The musical program began with Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13, "Babi Yar," conducted by Teodor Currentzis. Shostakovich's masterpiece was performed by the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Russian musicAeterna choir and Dmitry Ulyanov.
Currentzis became the musical director of the production of the Italian director Romeo Castellucci, who staged the opera based on the works of Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Orff's Comedy at the End of Time.
Many world-famous Russian soloists will also take the stage, as well as the pianists.
The Russian orchestra musicAeterna takes part in the symphony program of the festival.
The festival will run until the end of August.
Russkiy Mir
